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| Duke Research Blog

Duke Experts Discuss the Potential of AI to Help Prevent, Detect and Treat Disease

Scientific presentations were just one portion of the Duke Summit on AI for Health Innovation
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| Duke Engineering

Predicting Cyanide’s Role in Making Mercury More Dangerous

CEE PhD student Shannon Plunkett recently won a “Best Student Paper” award for her work on mercury toxicity caused by artisanal gold mining
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| Duke Engineering

Lightning Talks

Take a deep dive into the flashiest secrets of this common but little understood natural phenomenon with leading researcher Steve Cummer.

| Duke Engineering

Lithium-Ion Batteries Are an Unidentified and Growing Source of PFAS Pollution

Lee Ferguson and colleagues discover that the manufacturing and disposal of lithium ion batteries is a large and growing source of environmental contamination from a sub-class of so-called "forever chemicals"

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| Duke YouTube

Why Do You Study That: Cement

Learn more about how engineering professor Laura Dalton is studying ways to make this cement more environmentally friendly as part of the Duke YouTube Series Why Do You Study That?
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| Duke Engineering

For Many Urban Residents, It’s Even Hotter Than Their Weather App Says

Statistical model adjusts temperature data and finds urban areas with few weather stations are even hotter than reported
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| Duke Today

Virtual Town Hall to Introduce Climate Exchange

Pratt Dean Jerry Lynch says NYC beachhead will advance Duke's climate goals

Jeseth Delgado Vela, Liang Feng, Leanne Gilbertson, Judy Ledlee, Sara Oliver

| Duke Today

Meet Duke’s new climate faculty of 2023

Throughout the disciplines and across its schools and programs, Duke is employing and empowering climate-fluent leaders to educate a new generation of students.

| Duke Engineering

Sometimes in Microbial Life, Size Matters

The multi-institutional PreMiEr Engineering Research Center will rely on three life-sized test beds to examine how microbial communities affect human health in the places people live, work and play.

| Duke Engineering

Roundup Ingredient Connected to Epidemic Levels of Chronic Kidney Disease

Hard water is contaminated with glyphosate complexes in Sri Lankan communities plagued by chronic kidney disease